Department of Defense PIN 29997 RIFLE, 5.56MM XM16E1 OPERATION AND CYCLE OF FUNCTIONING FEATURES, CAPABILITY, AND OPERATION OF WEAPON - LOADING, FIRING, AND UNLOADING - CYCLE OF FUNCTIONING FOR SEMIAUTOMATIC AND FULLY AUTOMATIC FIRE.
IDK how old you are, but the early years of the M16 got a lot of service men and women killed. I'm 55, lost 2 uncles and ny dad in Vietnam due to garbage M16s. Yes, we now have better weaponry.
@@michaelmorehouse8872 The M16 wasn't the issue the issue was the ammo that was being fired and also the rifles didn't come with cleaning kits. If the M16 was a bad rifle the US military wouldnt have kept using it for 60 more years.
The designation of AR (armaLite rifle) was created and applied by the armaLite corporation and Eugene Stoner its creator. The M16 designation became applied when the AR15 rifle entered into the US military system (M = military).
I was in Nam in 68 with the 1st Infantry Div. and haven't forgotten any of this. One big upgrade was chrome plating the firing chamber after, numerous causalities from jammed weapons. When these rifles were first issued no cleaning kit was issued either. Robert McNamara said none was needed he was wrong.. Not sure if the Army still does the blindfold test of disassemble and assemble but we did it in seconds
In my experience you don’t really need to make sure the mag is seated properly if the bolt is already open. It should go in very easily with the bolt open but might as well tap it again I guess.
With the original type of magazines for the AR-15/M16/M4 etc., you often have to slap the bottom of the magazine to make sure it's seated, if you are inserting the magazine with the bolt closed. When the bolt is open, this isn't an issue. I believe with modern mags like PMAGs, it's not really an issue at all even with the bolt closed.
@@superpeabody2658 trigger discipline is already being practiced during Vietnam War, but not as serious as today's. just take a look at all the Vietnam War photos
@@hoppinggnomethe4154 you can find picture of us soldier holding their Friend at gunpoint with loaded m60 and with their finger on the trigger from the vietnam war era, those guy were crazy
@@mikoyan31BM blame US Army Ordnance Corps they are the one who issue faulty ammunition and shity magazine and they don't even bother to train soldiers to using it.( MUD is not a reason why it's jamming!!! ) the gun itself is good, There is a reason why NATO members start using AR15 (M16A1-4, M4a1, SIG516, HK416, T65 ) you don't believe me well then check out this video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LyXndCxn9K4.html)
Back then this was the obligatory ridiculous "Space Age" rifle. Now this is THE rifle. Compared to other service rifle that day, the M16 might've been the most advanced. Now every military that's not a ComBloc have one.
Indeed, but so sad that they have neglected one of the most important parts of it's design in modern military use; weight. With all the gadgets and gismos on rails and those quick lock handguards the rifle is almost double the original weight. Sure modern optics are great and all but having a bunch of stuff weighing a light design down just makes it dumb, might as well go with a battle rifle at that point (cal .308/7.62mm). It was never designed for longer ranges like a designated marksman rifle so iron sights should do perfectly fine, maybe red dot in this age for the carbine lenght
@@TheZebinatorofficial it wasn't designed for longer ranges, but it can do it. A 16" AR can go all the way out to 500 yards, a Mk 17 goes to around 800 yards, and an SR-25 goes out to about a thousand. They each have their tradeoffs, otherwise the military would be carrying big heavy 20 inch .308 rifles, kicking doors in with a rifle taller than the damned door.
@@candle_eatist Oh I know well that the AR is accurate at long ranges, it just wasn't designed to be used for that. And yeah every tool has its purpose, don't often see teams clearing rooms with AA cannons. It's just that how the rifle and its variants are used in military today is a "jack of all trades, master of none" setup. It would be better to have standard ARs and one more LMG per squad than everyone having a semi LMG ROLE. Maybe even a marksman in every squad for long range, but depends on squad size ofc. Iirc US military squad size is 6 but a squad of 12 with 2 LMG, 1 marksman and the other 9 with ARs could work for some things
Ha! My personal weapon in NMCB-74 was an XM16E1. Seeing that on the receiver was the only time I'd seen it. So far as I could tell it was no different than an M16A1, which all my other shipmates had.
The massive malfunction issues mostly stemmed from the US government not providing the super clean burning 5.56 ammo that Eugene Stoner had used during the engineering trials.
The Green Tilting Followers In The Original Ammunition Magazines Causing Jams Misfeed Malfunctions In The Rifle Magpul Fixed That With Antitilt Followers
@@ethankaryadi37 the forward assist button on the M16 very rarely works as intended. Most times it worsens a malfunction as opposed to actually fixing it. This is mostly due to the fact that the forward assist was not a part of the original design. The designer (based on experience) believed that if a round didn't want to chamber properly, it's better to find a way to eject it as opposed to force it in. The only reason the forward assist got added was because the US Army wanted one for "psychological and morale" purposes.
@@CheemsofRegret there are a lot of instances where you need to help the spring out, like if you want to be quiet and need to ride the bolt home in order to not produce a huge racket
@@wizard_of_poz4413 cause the m16 is soo quiet lol. It was entirely unnecessary and still is. A reliably unreliable machine gun it was. This gun got thousands killed. It's why we upgraded the standards today.
3:46 everyone forgive me for saying this, but, as long as I remember as a kid until now, I thought that a rifle that was gas-operated has a small fuel tank with a miniature motor in it that helped in firing the machine gun somehow. Now I know the gas is the spent exhaust GAS from the round fired.😂
Well that’s funny. But you are forgiven, if you weren’t raised with them in every room. Plus I agree with the first response. It takes a real man to admit something so funny.
@19Kettle93 Funny that you should mention the whole police fighting junkies thing, because it happens sometimes in Afghanistan, and in fact because of that some want to make pistols firing .45acps more prevalent than 9x19s. The .45acp is an old round, one that has old in origin but modernized weapons to fire it with. same thing with the 7.62x51, which is used in most of NATOs battle rifles, that are old in origin but have very good modernized versions.
I can't help but think the Infantryman used to the M14 were "Less than Impressed" by the XM16E1. It's going from one of the best Combat Rifles in History... to an underpowered 'weapon' that jammed a LOT in actual use (in the earlier models). It might have made sense for the jungles of Vietnam, but it was woefully inadequate for the extended ranges of combat in the mountains of Afghanistan. Where the enemy often fired at us from the next ridgeline. My 2 cents. BTW, I had my choice of weapons and carried a National Match, heavy barreled, wooden stock (glass bedded) M14 in Afghanistan... HAPPILY. SSG. U.S. Army (Medically Retired) Infantry / Sniper / SOF Intel (SOT-A), multiple tours
Great video every new shooter should watch this for a basic understanding of the platform. Too bad we live in an age we're all on a government watch list for watching it now.
WARNING, PLEASE READ BEFORE SCROLLING DOWN!!! everyone in this comment section below you is not only an expert on firearms and weapons manipulation. They also can't help but point out that some in this video lack trigger discipline because it's hard to remember that firearm safety has improved over the last 50+ years and pointing out the same thing as everyone else just makes you a chooch. Thank you and best of luck.
Watching this excellent video made me aware of the following; 1) there are 8 actions in the m16 operating cycle, 2) Eugene Stoner was a genius, 3) *stoner* and *genius* are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive terms.
By the way, the UMP fires all 9mm .40 and ,.45. depending on the name after UMP .45 UMP .40 UMP 9mm etc the MP5 military versions or police use strictly 9mm there are remakes that use the .22 for plinking
The a1 fixed every issue and the real cause of the jams of the xm16 was the military using the incorrect powder causing more fowling it burned at a diffrent rate causing the fire rat to increase which cause the bolt to cycle to fast fo pick up a new round and it would cause the cases to stick due to extreme fouling as well as the case expanding to much by the higher pressure
Carried the XM-16-E1 until my ETS in 1993. Apparently my CSM thought if it's good enough to compete with, then why assign me the A2 which had be in service for some time.
Youre full shit,my neighbor is a Vietnam vet and he a colt ar 15 before his army service, he loved his m16 and m14, the rifle was issued without a cleaning kit in the beginning and yes it had some problems that were corrected, quit reading guns and ammo magazine while stroking your big 1 inch
@wikieditspam exactly. I think the whole thing about the .223's stopping power "issues" is over-rated. About the only instance were I believe a larger caliber round would be useful if not necessary for a larger, harder hitting round is in some police/swat groups just because then if you have to stop a desperate guy on meth or speed or heroin, one shot may not do it.
I believe you have never fired a desert eagle handgun in your inexperienced life. If you did, I’d let you imagine a .44 caliber or equivalent rifle round. Even a .45 caliber 1911 colt has serious stopping power. High or not, be it ice or black tar, no one can refuse to react when getting hit by a .45 round off a 1911. And an AR 15 or M16 round .223 does serious damage to the human body once it impacts with flesh, bone and tissue. Ask any ER doctor who attends to shooting victims. Take a seat, kid. Let the adults talk.
@@kumarj4693 Ball point ammo which is standard issued is notorious for hitting flesh targets and not effectively ending a threat in some cases although I agree it'd hurt like a bitch there's plenty of examples from the last 20 years in the middle east where dudes wearing traditional garb are shot multiple times yet still manage to evade our troops
@holysoks1 there's footage of combat in Fallujah where a marine shot an enemy combatant 5 times yet still managed to change positions when the marine looked back down the hole he fired in
@@cosseybomb I'm guessing that's the drugs that enabled that, in which case it doesn't matter what caliber you shoot him with if you don't hit anything vital.
People spoke so different back then, like if you had put commercials from today and back then, you could almost say it was a different race speaking. Fascinating as usual
@SANPH Remington and others already make a killing selling the NATO version of their .223 rifle round, a copper jacketed lead ball firing round, something that will put a clean hole through anyone its shot at, this round is used through-out NATO forces in most of its service rifles, and a few of its machine guns. A round that WILL put anyone it strikes out of the fight, people generally aren't these badasses that can simply shrug off bullets, it doesn't matter what round, just some are louder.
I have 16 years old and I already know how to disassemble and assemble an AR-15 and a gun hahab nicee, I'm trying to learn to go to the ARMY or NAVY like my uncle
Imagine the teenagers today being lectured about endless genders, white anger and systemic racism that doesn't exist except for whites and Asians......
